And when you leave that unbeaten path and venture into the wild, well sometimes you stumble upon “el dorado.” (I tend to have great luck in that regard) Up until this week I would have said that my favorite restaurant in Vietnam was Bun Bo Nam Bo. But a weather system has been sitting over the whole country for over a week now giving us dreary days of drizzle and overcast skies.

So, if it had two really good dishes it would have to win right?

Unlike Nha Trang, Quy Nhon is cheap and not visited in any numbers by tourists so there was no point in leaving. There is even a beach you can pay to get onto that is on the property of a leper colony. Anyway I love to look at maps and see if anything jumps out at me. What you can’t see is that the large body of water north of Quy Nhon is completely surrounded by land (the screen on my computer is small and I couldn’t get the whole area on it for a screen shot) and that struck me as odd.

It doesn’t look like any rivers are draining into that massive lagoon So where is the water coming from? why was there a random road that ran into it then made a 90 degree turn? And I stress needed…some peculiar things rise above wants in my mind. So what did I find…well I found a lot of people living on that lagoon living on little man made paths connected with narrow paths and rickety bridges.

It was a beautiful place out there on the middle of the water. The red dot on the map above is basically where I ate.